Introduce Vocabulary: Happy Birthday, Martin Luther King (Marzollo)

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Looking for a vocabulary lesson relevant to MLK Day? Try this reading comprehension idea designed around Jean Marzollo's biography Happy Birthday, Martin Luther King. Go over new terms (freedom, justice, leadership, and talent) before reading it to the class, and challenge them to utilize context clues by indicating when they hear one of these words. They connect to familiar concepts as you ask comprehension questions and can synthesize this study using the graphic organizers.

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context clues, biographies, word meanings

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biography, context clues, Informational Text, word meaning, happy birthday martin luther king, jean marzollo, english language arts

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Grade

K - 3rd

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English Language Arts